Romans 3:15 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

BSB

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ASV

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

KJV

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

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Commentary

6 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

There is added in what follows: “Their feet are swift to shed blood.” Yet this crime will perhaps seem unable to be fitted to most of those of whom he said: “For we have charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin”; unless perhaps we understand it thus, that not only is the blood of those shed bodily whose bodies are butchered, but that those also who by any stumbling-block separate a soul from God are called men of blood.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Their feet are swift to shed blood. The sins of the heart and mouth are before described, and now the sins of action are taken notice of; for "the feet" are the instruments of motion and action: and when these are said to be "swift to shed blood", it denotes the readiness and eagerness of men, to murder innocent creatures; which shows the dreadful malice and hatred that is in them.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Besides the destruction and misery that are at the end of their ways (death is the end of these things), destruction and misery are in their ways; their sin is its own punishment: a man needs no more to make him miserable than to be a slave to his sins.-- And the way of peace have they not known; that is, they know not how to preserve peace with others, nor how to obtain peace for themselves.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Their feet ... - The quotation in this and the two following verses, is abridged or condensed from Isa 59:7-8. The expressions occur in the midst of a description of the character of the nation in the time of the prophet. The apostle has selected a few expressions out of many, rather making a reference to the entire passage, than a formal quotation. The expression, “their feet are swift,” etc., denotes the eagerness of the nation to commit crime, particularly deeds of injustice and cruelty.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὀξεῖς	oxeis	swift [are]	G3691 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πόδες	podes	feet	G4228 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἐκχέαι	ekcheai	to shed	G1632 →
αἷμα·	haima	blood;	G129 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 6:18
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
leads to
- Isaiah 59:7
  Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 6:5
  Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Proverbs 1:16
  For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
- Jeremiah 4:14
  Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Psalms 36:4
  Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
Through
Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
leads to
- Proverbs 6:18
  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
- Proverbs 4:16
  For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Romans 3:5
  But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Romans

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Romans